/*
 * Copyright 2011 Subhabrata Ghosh <subho.ghosh at langene.net>.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package net.langene.nlp.utils;

import net.langene.nlp.model.Sentence;

/**
 *
 * @author Subhabrata Ghosh <subho.ghosh at langene.net>
 */
public interface Tokenizer {

	/**
	 * Setup the Tokenizer instance.
	 * 
	 * @throws Exception 
	 */
	void setup() throws Exception;

	/**
	 * Tokenize the passed sentence.
	 * 
	 * @param sentence Sentence String.
	 * @return Sentence object with detected tokens.
	 * @throws Exception 
	 */
	Sentence tokenizer(String sentence) throws Exception;
	
}
